03 November 2017

Paessler has introduced an SaaS version of its PRTG network monitor where the visualisation, configuration and management of the environment is taken care of by the vendor on behalf of the customer via the cloud. 

Established for many years now, PRTG has been designed to monitor all systems, devices, traffic and applications in an organisation’s IT infrastructure. It uses SNMP, WMI, SSH, flows and packet sniffing, HTTP, REST API returning XML or JSON, ping, SQL, and more. Paessler adds that it is a comprehensive solution and that there are no additional modules to bolt-on or pay extra for.

The cloud-based version uses a remote probe installed on a Windows machine in the network to collect monitoring data. It executes the monitoring processes on the computer, and sends the collected data back to the PRTG cloud server for processing and visualisation.

Paessler says end users configure their devices and sensors via a web interface. From there, they can also create reports, manage users and build custom dashboards, all online. Should problems or failures occur within the monitored IT infrastructure, the PRTG server notifies the end-user via alerts that can be sent via email, push notifications, etc.